Cynthia is a freelance travel writer and digital nomad. She shares her travel tips and passion for travel as the content manager for her blog Blue Bag Nomads. She has lived in San Diego (hometown), Asheville, New York City, London, Oslo, and Rome. Her articles have been featured on several luxury websites and in the Chicken Soup for the Soul book -- Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone.

Connie Pearson is an Alabama-based freelance travel and food writer and blogger with over 150 articles published online and in print. Her personal blog There Goes Connie covers both travel and inspiration. In her earlier years, she was a public school music educator and then a missionary in Ecuador. Her book Telling It On the Mountain: 52 Days in the Life of an Improbable Missionary chronicles her years in South America. Connie and her husband have 3 married children and 13 grandchildren. She has traveled with her husband to many parts of the world doing mission work, but the pair are now making Bucket List trips and exploring their beloved South in depth.

Bob Bales is a History buff, cigar lover, and enthusiast of different cultures and places and he writes about his travels on his blog, The Traveling Fool. He advocates "traveling off the tourist path," finding those places where most visitors never go that might be right around the corner from the famous tourist hotspots.